There were some complaints from user on HA about August version of Nero AAC encoder quality compared to February 2007 release.But there were not much samples provided to back this up. Namely only guruboolez provided one sample. guruboolez is unfortunately not available since beginning of this year.Can you please help us providing more examples where it is easily noticeable that February version produces worse results than the August one. Also please point me to any thread that I missed where such sample was provided.Please provide very short samples (5-15 seconds) where the problem is evident, together with parameters used for encoding.This information is needed to improve next release of Nero AAC encoder, so if you are interested in improving the quality please help us.

I'm glad to see you're still working on the encoder. I'm very interested in the quality of the encoder. I reported this problem, but this is not august/february related. Maybe it's already solved, according to menno in that thread.

I'm glad to see you're still working on the encoder. I'm very interested in the quality of the encoder. I reported this problem, but this is not august/february related. Maybe it's already solved, according to menno in that thread.

This problem is solved, but we will not release encoder until we are sure that it doesn't introduce new problems and that is why users help is needed. To help us we need only samples that introduced new problems in August release compared to February release.

[*]flos-august.png (Adobe Audition screenshots showing the problem…[*]flos-february.png …and the difference in the two builds)

Thank you very much for this contribution. However graphs are not needed.Additional information that is needed is what difference do you hear? At which position?We will not try to make graphs look better, we will try new version of the encoder to sound better (by making it have less differences from original that could be heard).

Thank you eeven!The problem in the syllable 'flo' of the word 'florum' (6–8s) definitely exists, but is very subtle. I can not hear it, but I got confirmation from colleague, that has better hearing, that there is a subtle problem in February version.This sample is definitely not an example of "easily noticeable", but it will be taken into account before next release.

I've ABX'ed both mp4 against flac with Sennheiser headphone, cheap Sony amp and analogue out of onboard ADI1988B soundchip. If one listens to a small sound fading in at around 5.9-6.0 sec ABXing is very easy. I had really no problem matching samples so I quitted after 5 and 6 times. But I can say that v1.1.34 does the job much better than v1.0.7 (less distortion of that specific upcoming sound at around 5.9 sec).